Tax-increment financing revenue projects

Clemson's tax increment financing plan established 14 years ago is now the subject of a lawsuit.

The expansion of Clemson City Hall cost $2.8 million, according to city records. A redevelopment plan established 14 years ago proposed spending $800,000 on the work.

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Brick pavers in Clemsons Gateway Park have been partially removed from a concrete walkway. The relatively new park was paid for using tax increment financing, a municipal revenue tool that diverts some property tax money away from county and school operations.

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Pedestrians walk along College Avenue in Clemson. Improvements to the downtown area since 2002 have included brick sidewalks, streetlights and cameras.

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Chris Peckham of Clemson, a part-time student, walks on a brick sidewalk in downtown Clemson. The city paid for the decorative walkway using a controversial public-financing tool.

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Roger Hall, a Clemson parking enforcement officer, empties change from a full parking meter in the citys downtown parking deck, which is among several projects paid for with about $12.5 million in tax increment financing revenue.

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Clemsons Gateway Park on S.C. 93 was built in recent years with $305,000 from a controversial tax-increment financing tool that is now the subject of a lawsuit that Pickens County and the Pickens County school board are preparing against the city.

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Roger Hall, parking enforcement officer, drives into Clemsons $2.8 million downtown parking garage, which the city paid for with tax increment financing, a revenue tool that diverts some money from county and school operations.

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The Larry Abernathy Waterfront Park in Clemson is among several projects in the citys 1998 redevelopment plan paid for with controversial tax increment financing.

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Pedestrians walk on a new brick sidewalk along Sloan Street in Clemson.